sixtine dubly
Cultural programming - Exhibition curatorship
Project creation, Sixtine Dubly
The Horticultural Artistic Residence
Artist residency around the know-how linked to Flora and a living art, Seine-Saint-Denis (93)
June-October 2021
Using a quote from Joseph Beuys on art, agriculture and lettuce* (also a flowering plant), Sixtine Dubly imagines the unique system of "The Horticultural Artistic Residence" around the "Flower substance". This cultural and social program was the winner of the “Compositing knowledge for a sustainable future” program, 5th edition, 2021, of the Carasso Foundation.
RAH introduced seven young artists from the Paris region to horticultural know-how and ecological issues, in a flower farm in Seine-Saint-Denis (93). The ephemeral artistic performances exhibited in the field following the residency ( leur, une histoire de salade, October 2021) celebrate the impermanence of life. They are entirely plant-based, local and compostable and have given rise to modules for reflection on the reasoned production of works, such as the Météorologique Protocol.
The Horticultural Artistic Residency offers an artistic practice focused on the Living and the methods of reasoned cultivation. It also explores the new possibilities of mediation and social connection offered by Flora (citizen, scientific, cultural) in a peri-urban territory subject to complex socio-economic issues. Schoolchildren and associations were welcomed during guided tours dedicated to their issues.
*"Agriculture is a matter of art, which for me means being confronted with substances; that is to say, if we understand the spirit of substances, we can ultimately only create in agriculture. Here we are back to salad, there are these relationships to life everywhere." Joseph Beuys - What is art?, Interview with Volker Harlan 1986, ed. L'Arche, 1992
Artists: Morgan Courtois, Antonin Detemple, Quentin Derouet, Charlotte Heninger, Camille Juthier, Romain Lecornu, Vincent Rasclard
Carasso Foundation winning project: Composing knowledge for a sustainable future 2021.
Read: Booklet of the restitution exhibition #1: Flower, a story of salads and meteorological protocol
Press : The Art Newspaper daily 2021
Instagram : artistichorticultural residence
Opposite from top to bottom, from left to right : plant performances by Charlotte Heninger, Morgan Courtois, Quentin Derouet, Romain Lecornu. Poster by the artists. Photo. Clara Chichin/ Hans Lucas





